Year: 1989 Source: Hastings Center Report, v.19, no.1, (January/February, 1989), p.22-30 SIEC No: 20030823

This article discusses euthanasia in Holland. The author discounts euthanasia on the precept that the voluntariness of the patient is often counterfeit & always questionable. He also asserts that voluntary euthanasia is inseparable from, & inherently linked to overtly involuntary forms of euthanasia. Other reasons cited by the author to defend his position against euthanasia are fallibility, lack of necessary measure, & the danger that voluntary euthanasia could impose irreparable damage to medicine. (SC)